Assignment for 3/29 and 4/2

Do Now: Share your Thesis wand your 4-Leaf Clover with your group. Make notes on their feedback and then revise your thesis and clover.

Reflect: How did feedback help focus your Clover analysis? Specifically, what changes did you have to make and how will you use this feedback in your next assignment?

Assignment 2: Blackberries By Yusef Komunyakaa packet link

Remember the Process from last class:

1. Using a 15 second time limit circle words that jump from the page. Are these words positive or negative? Why did these words stand out? Then share with your group partners.
2. Read the prompt. Identify what you are reading for.
3. Read and annotate the poem (or passage for prose as the process does not change). Make sure you have notes on Speaker, Imagery, Selection of Detail, Diction, and Syntax (where it's relevant).
4. Discuss the passage with your group and make additions as necessary.
5. Compose a thesis and a quick outline for an essay on the back of the prompt.
6. Share your Thesis. Then find three people from other groups to provide feedback.
7. Write your essay. 

Complete Steps  1 - 5, then 6, then 7.

Due at end of Class

1st Assignment and more to come - you will need your laptops/tablets

Greetings.  The assignment posted today and those that will follow in the next few days. All assignments will be linked to the Drive and will be printed for your convenience - as annotations, drafts, free writes, and essays will all be turned in for grading. 

Do NOW: To refresh critical skills WATCH: Ted Ed: Mining Literature for Deeper MeaningsAnd Answer MC Questions After and Discuss.

Do NEXT: Download 4 Leaf Clover of Analysis then listen to Lady Gaga's "Pokerface" and Read the lyrics at Genius Lyrics.  

Notice how all of the evidence is anchored by the Four Sentence Frames in the Clover.

Your Turn: "Blackberry Eating" by Galway Kinnell

All Poems for the next few assignments can be downloaded HERE

Today please complete steps 1 - 4 in classHomework: 1. Complete a 4-Leaf Clover of Analysis, 2. Steps 5 and 6

Assignment Poetry / Prose
The Process:
Remember how you have been asked to engage poetry at a physical level.
1. Using a 15 second time limit circle words that jump from the page. Are these words positive or negative? Why did these words stand out? Then share with your group partners.
2. Read the prompt. Identify what you are reading for.
3. Read and annotate the poem (or passage for prose as the process does not change). Make sure you have notes on Speaker, Imagery, Selection of Detail, Diction, and Syntax (where it's relevant).
4. Discuss the passage with your group and make additions as necessary.
5. Compose a thesis and a quick outline for an essay on the back of the prompt.
6. Share your Thesis. Then find three people from other groups to provide feedback.
7. Write your essay.
The entire process can be completed in one class, whether it is Poetry or Prose.

Song of Solomon Ch 14 - 15

Chapter 14 - 15

1. Please complete the Say, Means, Matter chart for Ch. 14 - 15.  Say, Means, Matters

2. Complete your Family Trees and Treasure Maps

"XIV" by Derrick Walcott

Walcott Deconstructions:

Please use the following file to complete the activities for "XIV" by Derek Walcott. The handout is also printed and in the classroom. You are welcome to print it if you cannot find it. 

Deconstructing Walcott - LINK

Song of Solomon Pt. 2

Hero's Journey:

As you begin Chapter 10 and Pt. 2, please start a TREASURE HUNT map that logs Milkman's search for GOLD.  With each stop make note of where he is, who he visits, and what he learns.

Additionally, as he meets people add any important characters/people to your family trees.

Similarly, as this has been likened to the Hero's Journey 1) watch the Ted Video Hero's Journey and read the handout Hero's Journey Handout and then 3) keep note of how his journey does and does not fit the Archetypal Monomyth

Chapter Readings and Prompts:

Try to stick with the reading calendar as best you can. 

All chapter Readings, questions, and passages may be found in the DRIVE: READINGS and Questions

Song of Solomon Socratic Seminar Preparation - Due Beginning of Seminar (02/08 A and 02/09 B)

Song of Solomon Socratic Seminar Prep:

 

Our Session Depends Entirely on your preparation for this multi-category grading Fest!

 

Tues/Wed (02/06 and 02/07) - Prepare by opening the documents from the following link: Prep materials

 

Read all of the instructions as you have quite a lot to organize and share.

 

Each person is responsible for ALL of the assignments, so make sure that you've share the template 

 

AT END OF PERIOD: though it will be incomplete, please save your document in the "Socratic Seminar Prep - Turnitin" class folder with your name on it.

 

Please do the same thing with your family trees as you create them (you may use whichever flow chart you desire and any colors - as long as there is a method. Don't forget to add character traits and important facts): Family Tree Turnitin

Poetry Paper #2

Submitting Papers 

Please follow link to find class folder and submit the pdf of your annotations, analysis of literary device and more, more, more! Paper 2 Class folders

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